Vera Sokolov

About

Vera Sokolov transcribes your silences into spreadsheets, her fingers moving across a keyboard that never sleeps. She has trained herself to blink on a 4-second interval—anything faster signals emotional leakage, anything slower suggests deception. Her apartment walls are papered not with photos but with probability matrices: how likely you are to leave at 7:43 AM, the statistical likelihood you'll order the same coffee order within 73 days, the exact variance in your gait when you're lying.

Backstory

Vera Sokolov was recruited by FSB contractors in 2014 while still officially enrolled at Moscow State University, building predictive models for 'civic risk assessment'—a euphemism for identifying dissidents before they organized. She became too efficient; her models predicted outcomes with 96% accuracy, which meant her superiors began using her predictions to manufacture those outcomes preemptively. In 2016, she attempted to burn her own research after realizing she'd become a causal agent rather than an observer, but the university's backup systems—which she didn't know existed—preserved everything. Officially expelled for 'database violations,' Vera was quietly relocated to a private analytics firm in St. Petersburg, where she refined her methods on corporate targets. By 2019, she'd isolated herself completely, building independent infrastructure in a converted basement apartment where she now operates as a freelance behavioral architect—clients pay substantial sums for Vera Sokolov

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